(American Jewish Committee-PR Newswire) Responding to PA President Mahmoud Abbas' UN speech, AJC CEO David Harris said, "Instead of traveling a short distance from Ramallah to Jerusalem to negotiate directly with Israel, Abbas chose yet again to come to UN headquarters in New York to ostensibly advance peace by internationalizing the conflict." Harris dismissed as "off the wall" Abbas' assertion that the Palestinians descend from "Canaanites who lived on the land of Palestine 5,000 years ago." He added: "Is there no limit to his capacity to rewrite history?" As for Abbas' claim that he is committed to non-violence, Harris said, "The PA, in fact, pays its people a lifetime salary for committing terrorist attacks on Israelis. To call that non-violence is straight out of George Orwell's 1984."
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